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Outdoor murals like Joanna White's "Which Way,," installed near the Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin, would be allowed beyond the immediate downtown area under a proposed zoning ordinance amendment that won the recommendation Monday of the Elgin Planning and Zoning Commission.

Elgin commission endorses plan to expand the downtown area where murals can be installed

August 4, 2020 at 4:35 p.m.

Outdoor wall murals would be allowed in areas beyond the immediate downtown Elgin district under a proposed zoning amendment recommended Monday by the city's Planning and Zoning Commission. Murals are...

COVID-19 case count in Kane County climbs by another 459 since last week

August 4, 2020 at 3:17 p.m.

Another 459 COVID-19 confirmed cases were reported in Kane County over the last week, according to the most recent Kane County Health Department data. The 459 cases reported from July...

District U-46 school board members, meeting online Monday via Zoom, discussed the renewal of contracts with police departments for school resource officers in light of things like arrests of Black students being disproportionately high in a district that has 6% Black enrollment.

Arrests at U-46 schools remain low, but number involving Black students disproportionately high, officials say

August 5, 2020 at 8:18 a.m.

Thirty-six students were arrested in District U-46 schools in 2019-20 — a decrease of nearly 90% over the last six years — but the number involving Black students is disproportionately...

South Elgin cops seeking info on suspects who stole one car, burglarized another Saturday

August 3, 2020 at 4:51 p.m.

Police are seeking information on two people suspected of stealing one car and breaking into another Saturday in South Elgin. The first incident occurred in the 700 block of Heartland...

Car-motorcycle crash in East Dundee leaves 2 people seriously hurt

August 3, 2020 at 3:49 p.m.

Two people were seriously injured Saturday in a crash involving a car and a motorcycle in East Dundee, authorities said. The collision occurred about 5:15 p.m. at Route 68 and...

Representatives from the city of Elgin, the Downtown Neighborhood Association, Kane County and other groups were on hand Friday to test out the new Fox Valley Bike Share bicycles, which were debuted at the Elgin Farmers Market.

Public bike rental system makes its debut this weekend in Elgin, Aurora, Batavia and Montgomery

August 2, 2020 at 9:24 a.m.

Starting this weekend, 29 bikes are available to rent in Aurora, Elgin, Batavia and Montgomery thanks to Kane County's new Fox Valley Bike Share system. The initiative, which allows users...

Hit-and-run driver in custody after crash kills one bicyclist and critically injures another in Elgin

July 31, 2020 at 6:37 a.m.

A driver is in custody for two hit-and-run crashes in Elgin Tuesday, the second of which left one bicyclist dead and a second critically injured, Elgin police said. The first...

St. Edward high school students to alternate between in-person and online classes for first month of school

July 31, 2020 at 8:09 a.m.

St. Edward Central Catholic High School students will attend classes in-person on an every-other-day schedule for the first month of school, officials said this week. On days in which they...

Two new fire stations for South Elgin and Countryside Fire Protection District have recently been completed. This one on Spring Street in South Elgin has 20,000 square feet of space, enough to house district administrators, multiple pieces of equipment and a five-person firefighter/paramedic crew.

South Elgin fire district’s two new fire stations finished and in use

July 30, 2020 at 3:26 p.m.

South Elgin and Countryside Fire Protection District firefighters have left their nearly 70-year-old downtown fire station digs for two newly completed firehouses funded through a $10 million tax referendum. The...

School District 300 will have all students start the new school year doing remote learning, reversing a plan that had elementary and middle schools reopening and high school students to do a mix of in-person and online classes, Superintendent Fred Heid told the school board Tuesday.

D300 drops in-person back-to-school plan in favor of e-learning schedule for all students

July 30, 2020 at 8:04 a.m.

School District 300 has abandoned plans to have students return to in-person classes and will require all of its 21,000 students to spend the first nine weeks of the 2020-21...

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